This is the second feature film we see by Pierre Etaix and it's quite a charming history, with an intelligent mise-en-scène by Etaix.
In this the circus - who always was a part of Etaix' life - is more predominant.
We meet the rich and spoiled millionaire (Pierre Etaix) who has everything he could ever ask for - accept love.
With servants, musicians, dancers and all the facilities around him, he spends his days hunting, taking rides in his car and doing... nothing!
When the day has passed he spends the hours before bed looking at a photograph of a woman he once has loved and still loves.
When the circus pass his palace-like house, he hires them to amuse him.
As he is extremely blassé he doesn't find anything of what is shown to him, particularly exciting.
Not until he sees the woman he has yearned for - Isolina (Claudine Auger).
She has a son - Yoyo (Philippe Dionnet) - who is a copy of himself.
When the stock exchange crash in 1929 makes the millionaire poor and he have to leave his house, he joins the circus and he, Isolina and Yoyo goes on a journey around France, entertaining people until one day Yoyo is on his own.
Now Yoyo (Pierre Etaix) seeks to regain the palace- like house of his father and from this point we follow Yoyo's adventures through war and crisis.
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